Category Archives: Paul Coates

Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, Dec. 10, 1960

       Dec. 10, 1960: Matt Weinstock has the story of English instructor James Durbin, who  read poems to USC’s English Club without disclosing the poets' names. The works were written by Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Ezra Pound, e.e. … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Dec. 9, 1960

         Dec. 9, 1960: Paul Coates has a curious tale about an aspiring actor making a sort of debut – in the Hollywood Christmas Parade. On the jump, more about the killing of LAPD Detective Richard Kent.

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Paul Coates, Dec. 8, 1960

       Dec. 8, 1960, Richard Duket writes a 22-page letter to Paul Coates describing his descent into a life of crime…. And Marilyn Monroe says one reason she divorced Joe DiMaggio is because he watched TV instead of … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Dec. 7, 1960

    Dec. 7, 1960: Paul Coates files another piece on his recent trip to the Soviet Union, this time about his Intourist guide. “Like most educated Russians I met, she was either very well-informed or grossly misinformed on the … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Dec. 6, 1960

       Dec. 6, 1960: Paul Coates writes about a Soviet woman he calls Tanya and describes the hardships of her daily life. It’s marriage for Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe in Maurice Zolotow’s “The Real Marilyn Monroe.”

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Paul Coates, Dec. 5, 1960

       Dec. 5, 1960: Paul Coates writes about the curious contrasts in Soviet society, between the advanced technology in its space program and the shortcomings of its commercial aircraft, and notes the first-rate department stores stocked with fourth-rate … Continue reading

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Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, Dec. 3, 1960

       Dec. 3, 1960: Matt Weinstock says: "People are warming up to our town's pro basketball team, the Lakers. But something will have to be done about that name, which derives from their former home state, Minnesota, with … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Dec. 2, 1960

    Dec. 2, 1960: Paul Coates and his wife visit the tomb of Lenin (and, at that point, Stalin) … and John Grover takes a humorous look at President-elect Kennedy’s plan to televise news conferences. 

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Paul Coates on Adolf Eichmann, Nov. 30, 1960

         Nov. 3,  1960: Israel's Atty. Gen. Gideon Hausner tells Paul Coates: "Revenge is not the motive of this trial. What we want to do is, once and for all, set before the world the fully documented … Continue reading

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Paul Coates on Adolf Eichmann, Nov. 29, 1960

    Nov. 29, 1960: Paul Coates talks to Holocaust survivors in Israel about Adolf Eichmann and finds complex and contradictory views on him. One person wishes that his captors had simply shot him instead of bringing him to Israel … Continue reading

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Paul Coates on Adolf Eichmann’s Prison, Nov. 28, 1960

       Nov. 28, 1960: Paul Coates reports from Tel Aviv on the secret prison where Adolf Eichmann is being held. “Adolf Eichmann, the Gestapo butcher who engineered the coolly scientific slaughter of 6 million Jews, will be tried … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Nov. 21, 1960

       Nov. 21, 1960: Paul Coates writes about the “strange passivity” in the Soviet citizen. He quotes another reporter: "There's no city in the world where I'd feel safer for my wife and kids than Moscow. They can … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Nov. 19, 1960

    Nov. 19, 1960: Paul Coates writes about his encounter with a con man in the Soviet Union. And Marilyn Monroe takes up modeling in Part 6 of Maurice Zolotow’s "The Real Marilyn Monroe."

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Paul Coates, Nov. 18, 1960

       Nov. 18, 1960: One glance at the front page shows the Mirror was nothing like The Times — but all of that is going to change in a little more than a year…. Paul Coates writes about … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Nov. 17, 1960

        Nov. 17, 1960: Clark Gable dies in Room 209 of Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital at the age of 59… Paul Coates reports on impressions of President-elect Kennedy in the Soviet Union … and the Mirror publishes Part … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Nov. 16, 1960

       Nov. 16, 1960: Paul Coates files the first story in his series on the Soviet Union. He writes from Moscow: “This is the other side of the moon. A place so strange to western eyes that it … Continue reading

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Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller to Divorce

       Nov. 11, 1960: Paul Coates is on vacation so I’m running the Mirror’s letters column instead. There’s advice from F. Wilson on how to select a good orange and Eleanor Blangsted is thankful for help fixing a … Continue reading

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Paul Coates Is on Vacation, Nov. 10, 1960

    Nov. 10, 1960: Paul Coates is on vacation. Instead, we have a letters column in which readers say that women have too many rights, the minimum age for a driver’s license should be raised to 18 and wonder, … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Nov. 9, 1960

    Nov. 9, 1960: ROBERT MORSE of "Take Me Along" is a favorite for the Feuer and Martin musical, "How to Succeed in Business," Earl Wilson says. Paul Coates is on vacation.

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Paul Coates Is on Vacation

           Nov. 7, 1960: Paul Coates is on vacation. The Mirror publishes a letter from Mrs. Jeannette Williams, who complains about the slanted, pro-Nixon political coverage in the paper. She asks: “What do you take us … Continue reading

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